EU link to Balkans' science threatened The long-term future of a steering platform on research that brought warring Balkan nations and the EU together through science is uncertain after the project that hosted it ends.

West Balkans sign up to R&D pact The strategy, which will run from 2014 -- 2020, aims to lift the competiveness of researchers in these countries -- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

Greek universities struggle in face of job cuts The mood of many teachers and researchers at Greek universities has plumbed new depths of despair in the wake of layoffs of administrative staff members that have triggered strikes and closures at several universities.